A new study involving researchers from Oxford's Department of Earth Sciences has finally solved the mystery of what caused ...

The record reveals dramatic swings. Three dry intervals brought less than 700 millimeters of rain per year, while two wet ...

Discover the fascinating story of China's Three Gorges Dam, one of the world's greatest infrastructure achievements. This ...

BEIJING, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have recently quantified the correlation between prehistoric human population fluctuations and climate cycles in the lower Yangtze River region, ...

A seven hundred year old temple in the Yangtze River continues to survive floods through remarkable ancient engineering.

Stronger scientific support, infrastructure investment and public awareness are needed to mitigate rising risks from extreme weather after a year marked by unusually severe natural disasters, a ...

An international investigation, published in the journal National Science Reviews, has precisely determined the cause of the decline and diaspora of the Shijiahe culture, a complex civilization that ...

The Yangtze River Basin, a global biodiversity hotspot, has endured severe ecological degradation over several decades due to ...

A doubling of fish biomass along Asia’s longest river shows hope for large-scale conservation efforts and a lifeline for the ...

For decades, scientists have warned that Shanghai, one of the world’s largest and most densely populated coastal megacities, ...